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No name / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Ford.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF COLL	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. *, Repairs .

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ISBN	014043397X
Name	Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Title	No name / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Ford.
Published	London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1994
Description	xxii, 617 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. 617)
Summary	Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from social grace - is revealed early on, and as Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many a moral, social and legal skeleton in the cupboards of Victorian society. Mercurial and unscrupulous, Magdalen is Wilkie Collins's most exhilarating heroine, one of the rare subversives in Victorian fiction and a woman dazzlingly versatile in her powers of self-transformation. Through her, with great comic vigour, No Name exposes how social identity is constructed, and how it can be dismantled, buried, borrowed or invented.
Genre	Psychological fiction
Other Names	Ford, Mark, 1962-
Series	Penguin classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Psychological fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 . Ford, Mark, 1962- . Series: Penguin classics .